Please review my website :)

MicahJPhotography · Feb 26, 2013

Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum and I'm hoping to get some feedback/suggestion regarding my website. I have recently refreshed my website from blogger to wordpress/godaddy in January. I'm going for a simple/clean/easy to navigate website. I noticed that my website is a little slow to load? I'm still trying to get used to the wordpress platform and plug-ins. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks! http://blog.micahjphotography.com

o hey tyler · Feb 26, 2013

MicahJPhotography said:
Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum and I'm hoping to get some feedback/suggestion regarding my website. I have recently refreshed my website from blogger to wordpress/godaddy in January. I'm going for a simple/clean/easy to navigate website. I noticed that my website is a little slow to load? I'm still trying to get used to the wordpress platform and plug-ins. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks! http://blog.micahjphotography.com

I couldn't load your website on my phone. I would assume its godaddys less than adequate hosting service. Also check out http://tools.pingdom.com/ in regards to optimizing your site.

MicahJPhotography · Feb 26, 2013

o hey tyler said:
MicahJPhotography said:

Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum and I'm hoping to get some feedback/suggestion regarding my website. I have recently refreshed my website from blogger to wordpress/godaddy in January. I'm going for a simple/clean/easy to navigate website. I noticed that my website is a little slow to load? I'm still trying to get used to the wordpress platform and plug-ins. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks! Micah J Photography - Los Angeles Wedding Photographer. Photojournalistic. Contemporary Portraits.

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I couldn't load your website on my phone. I would assume its godaddys less than adequate hosting service. Also check out Pingdom Tools in regards to optimizing your site.

Thank you for the link! Perf grade of 80/100 and 8.93s load time. It says my website is slower than 84% of all tested websites. Wow that's sloooow.

Mully · Feb 26, 2013

I did not find it to be slow..... the only thing I saw that needs fixing is the menu items and the text is hard to read as it is quite dark

Ilovemycam · Feb 26, 2013

Impressive, nice work!

ChrisHeathcote · Feb 26, 2013

Nice site with some great work. My only comment is to do with the navigation, and that is at first I thought the "goto" drop down was a google search, not site navigation. Maybe having tabs/button links might make it easier for clients to find their way around.

MicahJPhotography · Feb 26, 2013

Mully said:
I did not find it to be slow..... the only thing I saw that needs fixing is the menu items and the text is hard to read as it is quite dark

Thank you for your comment, I will look into changing the color of the font.

MicahJPhotography · Feb 26, 2013

Ilovemycam said:
Impressive, nice work!

Thank you!!

MicahJPhotography · Feb 26, 2013

ChrisHeathcote said:
Nice site with some great work. My only comment is to do with the navigation, and that is at first I thought the "goto" drop down was a google search, not site navigation. Maybe having tabs/button links might make it easier for clients to find their way around.

Thank you for your input!

thomas30 · Feb 27, 2013

It is looking but but on home page you should add some content as well.

imagemaker46 · Feb 27, 2013

My first impression is that all the photos loaded quickly, but I found them to be really flat and washed out. If this was the look you were after then it worked well. I looked through some of the gallery and you have very nice images. I found the post processing all over the place, flat, over saturation and under saturation as well. There didn't seem to be any consistency.

MicahJPhotography · Feb 27, 2013

thomas30 said:
It is looking but but on home page you should add some content as well.

Thank you for comment. I am going for a simple/clean homepage. What kind of content do you suggest?

MicahJPhotography · Feb 27, 2013

imagemaker46 said:
My first impression is that all the photos loaded quickly, but I found them to be really flat and washed out. If this was the look you were after then it worked well. I looked through some of the gallery and you have very nice images. I found the post processing all over the place, flat, over saturation and under saturation as well. There didn't seem to be any consistency.

Thank you for your input! I am going for the flat washed out look. As far as my gallery, I have work on there that's a few years old and I have been changing up my editing style so it's kinda all over the place. It's a work in progress..